Please join us for an evening discussion with special guest
MARIE BRENNER
Award-winning Journalist and Author
Staff writer, The Atlantic
6 p.m. | Reception
6:30 p.m. | Presentation
7:15 p.m. | Book Signing
Institute of International Education
809 United Nations Plaza (First Avenue bet. 45th & 46th Sts)
Kaufman Center, 12th Floor
New York, NY
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Non-Members: $15
Now a major motion picture, A PRIVATE WAR is the story of legendary war correspondent Marie Colvin, who died in 2012 while covering the Syrian civil war.
In February 2012, Marie Colvin crossed into Syria on the back of a motorcycle. A veteran war correspondent known for her fearlessness, outspokenness, and signature eye patch, she was defying a government decree preventing journalists from entering the country.
Accompanied by photographer Paul Conroy, she was determined to report on the Syrian civil war, adding to a long list of conflicts she had covered, including those in Egypt, Chechnya, Kosovo, and Libya. She had witnessed grenade attacks, saved more than one thousand women and children in an East Timor war zone when she refused to stop reporting until they were evacuated, and even interviewed Muammar Qaddafi.
But she had no idea that the story she was looking for in Syria would be her last, culminating in the explosion of an improvised device that sent shock waves across the world.
Join us for an evening with author Marie Brenner, whose book A Private War brilliantly chronicles the last days and hours of Colvin’s life, moment by moment, to share the story of a remarkable life lived on the front lines. An acclaimed film adaptation of the book has also been recently released, starring Rosamund Pike and Stanley Tucci.
This Book Talk event is offered in co-operation with the Institute of International Education.
Guest Speaker
MARIE BRENNER
Marie Brenner is the author of seven books and Writer at Large for Vanity Fair.
She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker, a contributing editor at New York and has won numerous awards for her reporting around the world. Her expose of the tobacco industry, “The Man Who Knew Too Much” was the basis for the 1999 movie The Insider, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
She lives in New York City.
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